US Patent Issued to Medtronic Advanced Energy on Oct. 27 for "Large area hemostasis with vessel sealing" (Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,256, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC (Minneapolis).

"Large area hemostasis with vessel sealing" was invented by James E. Dunning (Boulder, Colo.), Brian Lane (Fridley, Minn.), Erin E. Wehrly (Boulder, Colo.) and Prakash Manley (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multifunction surgical instrument having a low-profile configuration to deliver both small vessel sealing through a bipolar clamping mechanism and transcollation sealing of diffused bleeding in a broad tissue plane, the multifunction surgical instrument including a first jaw and a second jaw configured to transition between an open...